Animation for Film, Broadcast, and Multimedia

Animating Natural Environments in a Breeze…

Imagine a forest, with trees realistically swaying in the wind. Not 10 or 50 or 100 trees. A real forest, with hundreds of thousands of animated trees...

Imagine an airplane flying at high speed over a gorgeous range of mountains and canyons, dotted with rocks and plants. A terrain that stretches on and on, seemingly endless, yet always detailed and realistic…

How long will it take you to create, set up and animate such sequences in your 3D application?

VUE lets you do all this in a breeze. It offers a dedicated toolset that’s specifically designed to handle extremely complex, high-poly natural 3D environments.

Choose either Infinite, the stand-alone version with professional compositing and synchronization tools, or xStream, the integrated solution, which lets you create and animate VUE environments directly inside 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, Cinema 4D and Softimage.

Recommended products for animators:

VUE Infinite

VUE xStream

TPF Producer

TPF Studio

Carbon Scatter

Highlights for Animators

All SolidGrowth™ and PlantFactory plants can be animated – wind, breeze, fluttering leaves, growth and decay

Ventilators for local animated wind effects

EcoSystems™ – populate scenes with millions of plants, rocks and objects in one click

Breeze animation can be applied to entire EcoSystems

Inetracively paint EcoSystems

SolidGrowth4 - flicker-free rendering of dense vegetation

Spectral atmospheres - all atmospheric elements and volumetric clouds can be animated

Procedural and HeightField terrains – LOD is dynamically updated according to distance from camera

Full keyframe animation with adjustable time-curves, tangents and interpolation

Tools for Animating 3D Nature

The EcoSystem revolution

Plant animation

Animate SolidGrowth plants with breeze and wind, globally or per-plant. Breeze settings include random pulsations, gusts of wind and fluttering of leaves. Add omni and directional ventilators for local wind effects.

Infinite detail

Procedural terrains can be stretched to any size, yet display an unlimited level of detail. More detail is dynamically added closer to the camera.

Animated atmospheres

Animate all atmospheric elements (shifting volumetric clouds, twinkling stars, fog, haze, sunlight, etc…).
Spectral atmospheres automatically react to the position of the sun, for ultra-realistic sunsets and time lapse animations.

Professional compositing tools

With VUE xStream, you can create, edit and render complete, fully animated VUE scenes directly in 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D and Softimage. This is the most streamlined and effective solution for animators.

VUE for Discovery Channel

Darkside Animation, a UK based SFX studio, was commissioned to recreate an animated sequence for a High Definition special called "Volcano Fire and Ice", a co-production between Mentorn and The Discovery Channel.

Darkside created a digital landscape with VUE 5 Infinite and used LightWave to integrate digital smoke in the footage.

“Vue is an awesome software! So much detail can be created in just a few mouse clicks and then altered quickly. You can't help but smile with so much power at your disposal!”